Shoot Videos with Nokia N-Series phones and Show The Director in You. Exclusive now for Indian Nokia fans.

Nokia India has announced the Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards in association with Subhash Ghai’s Whistling Woods International, the renowned film training institute, and Mediamatics Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Aimed at unleashing the ‘movie maker in everyone’, the initiative is targeted at young, up-and-coming filmmakers in the country.

Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards invites aspiring participants above 18 years of age to shoot a mobile film using their mobile phones in categories of fiction and non-fiction. The contest starts on 18th February, 2007 and ends on 12th March, 2007.

Participation steps for Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards:
- Entry forms can be downloaded from www.nokia.co.in/nseries or www.whistlingwoods.net. The forms are also available at Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards Roadshows and select retail outlets, details of which are available at above URLs.
- Participants can shoot a video of up to 3 minutes duration using their mobile phone
- Films can be made in 2 categories: Fiction and Non-fiction (the same has to be indicated while submission of the film).
- Participants can either edit the film on their phone or after downloading into a computer.
- The final film and the original footage have to be burnt on a VCD/DVD and mailed to Nokia N-Series Mobile Film Awards 2007, 1005, Edenwood Tower, Shastri Nagar, Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri (W), Mumbai 400 053.
- Contest starts on 18th February, 2007 and ends on 12th March, 2007.
- For more details SMS “Nseries SG” to 5555.

Source: IT News Online > India - General - Nokia India Announces Nokia Nseries Mobile Film Awards

Track your Mobile if lost and save lives using emergency SMS, are two key features of new Samsung phones launched in India.

Samsung Telecommunications India Ltd. announced the launch of its range of secured phones SGH-C140, SGH-X520 and SGH-E250 in India. The technology boasts revolutionary security features like mobile tracker, emergency SMS and privacy lock in slider, clamshell and bar form factors, these phones transcends the current market offering by empowering consumer’s security during mobility.

Mobile Tracker helps consumers to track their lost phone. Emergency SMS acts as personal bodyguard and alerts close relatives or friends about his distress or emergency situations. Privacy lock protects the data, photos, voice memo, multimedia messages, images and sound stored in the phone from intrusion.

Source: Indiantelevision.com’s Digital Edge: Samsung launches mobile tracker

Read News papers right on your mobile phone in India.

Pressmart and IMImobile today announced the availability of “mPaper”. This unique collaborative technology will enable news publishers an opportunity to tap the fastest growing mobile mass market of young and technology savvy subscribers who wish to read news and access their favorite newspaper content while on the move. mPaper opens a new window of opportunity for content publishers as well as news carriers to offer newspapers on a mobile screen in their original format.

To begin, nine major operators from India and other nations will offer this serivce over WAP portals for their customers. The mPaper is unique, it offers features like archives, search & saving news reports and will be available on a monthly subscription. The New Media Delivery Platform(tm) enables a managed delivery service to publications that value the velocity and dynamism of Web 2.0 space without losing their print identity on WAP-compliant handsets.

The newspaper brands that will be immediately available include brands such as The Hindustan Times (Mumbai and Delhi editions), The Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad and Chennai Editions), DNA, Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Financial Express, The New Indian Express, The Telegraph and Pioneer.

Source: Moneycontrol India